Impeachment or Nuclear War?

Comment by Larry Ross, March 28, 2006

In the following article Ralph Nader gives an excellent analysis of why the Bush-cons Administration should be impeached. I hope the Americans are able to do this- and that the U.S. will withdraw from Iraq - and that there will be no war with Iran. However the future could be very different.

For some time the Bush-cons have been planning a war with Iran, perhaps nuclear. They're unlikely to stop now and admit failure in Iraq. That would be unacceptable, and in any case they don't appear to be any serious challengers. I think they will try to continue their horrendous dream of an American empire. As a trigger Bush desperately needs another 9/11 "Pearl Harbour" which he can blame on Iran, then use as a justification for attack. As 9 states have nuclear weapons and the IAEA reports Iran has none, even Bush might find it hard to justify an attack on Iran because it might get nuclear weapons some day.

Will enough Americans believe that it was a convenient terrorist attack that occurred at just the right time to save Bush and boost his popularity?. The 9/11 attack in 2001 was followed by an extensive cover-up and wall-to-wall unquestioning media support for the Bush story. People believed the Bush/Blair lie that Saddam was involved and according to Blair "could missile attack the UK in 45 minutes" with WMD.

So the majority backed the US/UK illegal attack on Iraq. It was found that Saddam had no WMD, was not linked to terrorism or 9/11 and had no nuclear weapons. That made no difference to Bush, Blair and Howard who knew it was all lies before they started their war.

The next terrorist attack could be worse than 9/11, in order to enflame the public and get support for Bush to use nuclear weapons on the nation he claims is responsible.

 

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Bush's Divorce from Reality

Impeachment or Resignation: Pick Your Poison

By Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, March 25, 2006

Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don't just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House--George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

Already, a large majority of you do not consider this shifty duo trustworthy. By more than two to one you disapprove of Bush's war in Iraq. Similar majorities believe this is also a President whose administrative incompetence--note the post-Katrina debacles compared to his promises last September in that devastated New Orleans--nearly matches his penchant for daily fabrications.

The precipitous drop in Bush's polls (Cheney's are even lower) is not coming from liberals who long ago registered negative in these national surveys. The drop is coming from millions of erstwhile Bush supporters, Bush voters, Bush-loving conservatives.

Why? Just look at or read the news every day. There goes Bush and Cheney insisting that conditions in Iraq are getting better and better, when they are getting worse and worse. And Americans also know this because hundreds of thousands of soldiers and other personnel are rotating from Iraq back into every state and community and telling millions of people the truth.

Repeated reports from diverse official, media and eyewitness accounts say that there is less electricity, more disease, less drinkable water, less housing, far less street security, less health care, less gasoline, fewer jobs and far more violence against civilians after the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld invasion in March 2003 than before the sanctioned, tottering, besieged dictator, Saddam Hussein, was toppled.

With Bush's own ambassador to Iraq warning of a possible civil war and Bush's handpicked interim Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi saying "We are in a terrible civil conflict now," the serial delusionists, Bush and Cheney, having lied five ways into their war, go around daily as smarmy pollyannas spouting what Bush calls "a strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq".

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